Category: MMA
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Updated: UFC Light Heavyweight Division

(Originally written in March 2023. Updated at the bottom in September 2024. A lot has happened in this division in recent history.) The UFC Light Heavyweight Division is a perfect blueprint as to why the UFC has changed so much just in the last two years. From March 2011 to September 2020, the belt has been…
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Updated: UFC Middleweight Championship

(Originally written in March 2023. Updated at the bottom in August 2024. A lot has happened in this division in recent history.) Anderson Silva is considered one of the greatest UFC fighters of all-time. He won the middleweight belt in just his 2nd fight in the UFC. Granted, the UFC was much different then than it…
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Updated: UFC Welterweight Division

(Originally written in March 2023. Updated at the bottom in August 2024). The UFC Welterweight Division has had seven champions since late 2006. Most of them are or will be UFC Hall of Famers. Georges St-Pierre, a two-division champion thrived mainly in this division. He became champion first in November 2006 by beating Matt Hughes…
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Updated: UFC Lightweight Division

(Written in March 2023, will be updated periodically at the bottom. Last updated in August 2024). The UFC Lightweight Championship is one of the most entertaining divisions in all of MMA today. It is arguably the most stacked with up-and-coming prospects, future legends and solidified legends. Also, it has the biggest name in MMA history,…
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Updated: UFC Heavyweight Division

(Written in March 2023. Will be updated periodically at the bottom. Recently updated in August 2024). For this weight class, I’ll keep it as basic as I can. Let’s start in May 2016, the UFC Heavyweight division, was Stipe Miocic. He had beaten Mark Hunt and Andrei Arlovski before getting his title shot against then…
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The History of UFC Champions

The next upcoming series of articles are going to be basically a history lesson for anyone out there just getting into MMA or the UFC. I wanted to write this to start off my page about MMA to resemble how quickly the UFC is changing. From long-tenured champions, legends, and hall-of-famers, to now short-tenured champions…
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Do Not Resuscitate

Death is the inevitable final chapter of the physical human experience. During the last days, weeks, and months of someone’s transition, those around them do what they can to provide comfort; knowing the unavoidable is coming. Select few, in certain circumstances, keep their loved ones on life support because they can’t accept reality. Death. Transition.…